Hurricane Blues Chords by Linton Kwesi Johnson

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_ _ _ Long time lover, [C] the mind run upon you all the while, [G] and remember how first time [Em] to
where we coming, it did seem like two shallow little snakes in stream, [C] marching hapless
a gallop [G] through the rocky landscape in the harps.
[Em] And I saw we did a go on, to fill that
faithful day, [E] after the passion [Am] of the hurricane, greater than imagination [F] or dream, we find
myself lay down [G] upon the same bedrock, the way now together [Em] as one stream, riding [C] sublime
jewel of lavish terrain, [F] lush and green and bright after the rain, [G] shimmering with glittering
eyes, [Am] knowing the clearness by themselves.
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_ [Em] Long time lover, we feel [C] blue with you when we think about you, [G] blue like the sky lingering
[Em] promise of rain, in the leaking light, in the hush of a evening twilight, [C] when we remember
how first [G] time to where we coming, it [Em] did seem like a long, long river that is wide
and deep.
_ [Am] Sometime we was silent like the language of rock stone, [F] sometime we would
sing river song and we [G] are wind like a lung, sometime we just [Em] cool and calm under plenty
tree, [C] sometime softly laughing bamboo root [F] as they swing and sway, sometime [G] cascading
carefree down a steep gully bank, [Am] sometime turbulent in temperament.
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But whether a bar [F] flow through rain through drought, we [G] never stray far from rigid road.
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_ [Em] Old time sweet heart, up to [C] now me still can't understand how we get [G] back down in a somewhat
sealed dance, [Em] rock stone, debris, log jam, sometime we had was to flow with separate [C] paths.
Now traversing the [G] tarred terrain, a love landscape, [Em] running from the pollution of a
untried heart, the lungs of [E] a marvelous miracle [Am] hurricane,
the karmic war meeting stream [F] again, lamenting mishearted fear [G] and I said
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